24movement against the po liti cal Islamist group
Jamat- e- Islami in the Indian subcontinent during
the partition of Pakistan. The Barelvis would chant
an anti- Semitic Urdu slogan against the Jamat’s
founder, Mawdudi— “Sau yahudi aek Mawdui,” or
“Mawdudi is worse than a hundred Jews.” Though
despicable, this slogan highlights my point about
the animosity between many fundamentalists
and Islamists. Mumtaz Qadri, who assassinated
Salmaan Taseer, the blasphemy- law reformer and
governor of Punjab in Pakistan, hailed from this
same Barelvi movement.
That leads perfectly to the next circle, which is
by far the largest: religiously conservative Muslims.
Whether one looks to Pakistan, Indonesia, Ma-
laysia, Egypt, or the Gulf, the majority of Muslims
are currently conservative— some would call them
fundamentalists. Let’s call them conservatives, be-
cause they don’t wholeheartedly subscribe to con-
temporary liberal human rights.Harris What is the line between conservative Islam
and Islamism? In other words, what keeps conser-
vatives from wanting to impose Islam on the rest
of society?
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